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No. 338,355. Patented Mar. 23, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE R. OSBORN AND ARTHUR F. GREGORY, OFNEW YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,355, dated March 23,1886. Application filed August 5, 1885. Serial No. 173,639. (No model.)

To aZl whom it may concern;

Be it known that we, GEORGE It. OSBORN and ARTHUR F. GREGORY, citizens of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Easels; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The obj eet of our invention is to so construct an easel that a cup and saucer may be conveniently supported upon it, the cupbeing suspended in front of the saucer in any desired relation thereto.

To this end our invention consists, in the main, of an easel the upper end of which carries an adjustable suspension-hook, on which the cup can be hung.

In order that our invention may be clearly understood, we have illustrated in the annexed drawings, and will proceed to describe, two practical forms thereof, respectively represented in perspective in Figures 1 and 2.

In the easel representedin Fig. 1 the arched back A and feet B B of the easel are bent up from a single piece of stiff wire. The saucerrests a a, guards b b, and rail 0 are also formed of a single piece of stiff wire, the ends of which are securely riveted to the legs of the arched back. The guards are formed by winding those portions of the wire between the rests and the rail into scrolls, as clearly shown. Thus this single piece of wire performs the functions above ascribed to the several portions thereof, and in addition thereto it constitutes a tie to prevent the spreading of the arched back by the weight of the cup and It will be observed that the rail 0 is elevated above the rests a a, and that it is located in front or in advance of the legs of the easel. By reason of its elevation this rail safely confines the saucer, so that it cannot accidentally slip ofi. This feature of construction may be used on easels other than cup and saucer easels. At the top of the arch is a horseshoe ornament, O, with an upward projection, o. The hook D, for supporting the cup, is suspended from the projection c of the horseshoe by a chain, E, so that the hook may be readily raised or lowered for hanging the cup in front of the saucer in any desired relation thereto.

In the easel represented in Fig. 2, the arched back, saucer-rests, plain guards, and feet are all bent up from a single'piece of stiff wire, and a chain, F, is used to tie the legs of the arch together to prevent spreading. The top of the arched back is provided with a simple upwardly-projecting pin for the chain of the suspension-hook.

WVe claim as our invention- I. In an easel, the combination,substantially as before set forth, of a fixed projection on the top of the back, and a chain-hook adapted to be suspended by any one of its links from the said projection.

2. An easel the legs of which are connected by a tie comprising rests, scroll-guards, and a rail elevated above the rests in front of the legs, substantially as before set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE R. OSBORN. ARTHUR F. GREGORY.

Witnesses:

J AMES H. LAM HEAR, JOHN L. PEoBLE. 

